It is indigenous to the Little Karoo in the Western Cape, South Africa.
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Today Towerkop Nursery is recycling.
The carrier handle on this wine box makes a good plant tag !
Stapelia gariepensis – Flowering now at Towerkop Nursery.
Found in stony places and drier areas of the Karoo and Namaqualand in South Africa. The starfish-like flowers mimic the odour of rotting flesh, to attract the carrion flies that pollinate them.
Nice to look at though !
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Tagged Africa, flowers, Horticulture, Medicinal plants, Plants, Succulents
Sea-onion, Albuca bracteata. Feature plant at Towerkop Nursery.
Albuca bracteata – Sea onion being attended to by a bee !
Attractive inflorescences on long spikes of small white fragrant flowers with green central stripes produced from spring to summer.
These South African natives are particularly attractive in rock gardens, slopes and containers.
Chincherinchee – Ornithogalum thyrsoides. Featured plant at Towerkop Nursery.
Ornithogalum thyrsoides is a bulbous perrenial bearing a raceme of glossy white flowers.
It occurs on sandy flats and lower slopes from Namaqualand to the southern cape.
Now flowering at Towerkop Nursery, I just love the name ‘Chincherinchee’ !
These Cacti flowered just before a big rainstorm !
Cacti flowers
Echinopsis eyriesii
Spring daisies in bloom at Towerkop Nursery.
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Tagged Africa, flowers, herbs, Horticulture, organic, Spring
